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PEREIRA VELASQUEZ, Claudia  e  MARTINEZ BARRIENTOS, Alejandra. Decreasing Depression indicators through means of development coping strategies (a Study in Institutionalized Adolescents). Ajayu [online]. 2004, vol.2, n.1, pp.54-66. ISSN 2077-2161.

The purpose of the present research, was to verify the effectiveness of coping strategies for decreasing indicators of emotional regulation for emotional alteration. This study considerates an integral program of intervention in Coping in institutionalized adolescents. This program proposes to diminish the indicators of Depression through the development of coping strategies, looks for the development of thoughts, emotions and behaviors more adaptive in a context in which the phenomenon of Depression tends to amass itself, like in institutionalized adolescents, even more when this kind of indicators and their awful consequences appears not only in adults but in adolescents and still worse in children. In the adolescents, to which the intervention designed was applied, a significant diminution of the depression indicators was observed and the strategies of coping obtained a positive adaptation in their context.

Palavras-chave : Coping; Depression; Cognition; Emotion; Behavior.

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